<p> Quia Handout 3 Creating a Class</p><p>Why Create a Class---A Quote from Quia Help Classroom management tools help you and your students get the most out of Quia quizzes. If you are a Quia subscriber, you can create one or more online classes in which your students can enroll. Creating a class takes just a minute's worth of time and offers many benefits: Benefits to instructors:  You'll have a student roster and a gradebook showing all of your students and all of the quizzes you have given. You can view quiz results for the class as a whole or for a particular student, for all quizzes at once or for a single quiz only.  You can restrict quizzes to enrolled students only. This provides better security and reduces the risk of cheating.  You can give personalized feedback to students when grading their quiz results. Benefits to students:  Students can have their own Quia accounts. Student accounts are free and allow students to review all of their past quiz results at any time.  Students can log in to see feedback that instructors have given them on their graded quizzes.  Students can organize their quiz results by class if they have multiple instructors using Quia. Always look for the About Quia Help Quia help icon. It brings up step-by-step instructions and explanations---such as the one pictured here. </p><p> Click the Classes link on the navigation bar.  Click Create a new class.  </p><p>How to Create a Class  Click Classes from the navigation bar.  Click Create a new class.  Name the class.  Determine the end date. (include month, year and click on the actual day on the calendar.)</p><p>1 PDA 2008 Quia Handout 3 by June Jones Quia Handout 3 Creating a Class</p><p> Choose the enrollment method (we will do Instructor enroll for demonstration purposes)  Note the explanation of the two methods.  Click submit. </p><p>After Creating the Class  Fill in the information requested.  You have the option to edit the class name and choose the webpage name that will display in the URL. </p><p>  Note the drop down to switch to other classes.  You can edit the end date.  Fill in teacher and school information.  Note the Help links to the right. </p><p> Further down the page, you will find the message area.  Make the color and font choices.  Type the class description or other message here.  Note the options next to Insert below the message box.  This is where we can insert pictures, files like Word documents and sound files.  Note the option to assign quizzes, activities and surveys to the page. </p><p>We will insert items from the filing cabinet on your page as well as add quizzes and activities later. </p><p>2 PDA 2008 Quia Handout 3 by June Jones Quia Handout 3 Creating a Class</p><p> There is a place to type favorite websites.  There are options to include a calendar, hit counter, profile, etc.  You can preview changes before saving.</p><p>If you preview changes ---don’t forget to choose continue editing or save from the top of the preview page. DO NOT use the back button. If you do hit back---try the refresh button. </p><p>Plan Ahead and Try One of Your Own: 1. Decide on a class naming convention. 2. Decide on the end date. 3. Decide on Student or Instructor enrollment method. 4. Decide whether to use the given URL or create one that matches your class name for example-- http://www.quia.com/pages/jtest30/quiatestclass 5. Have your school name and URL handy 6. Decide if you want a title like department head to appear Notes:7. Decide on background and font sizes and colors and preferred font. 8. What do you want the text message box to say---i.e. the content of your page—class description, homework instructions, directions, current class information etc. 9. Make sure the files, sounds and pictures are in your files area (filing cabinet) 10. Decide if you want additional options displayed---calendar, hit counter, link on the profile page to this class. </p><p>Notes: </p><p>3 PDA 2008 Quia Handout 3 by June Jones</p>